Such a newsy edition in the best way! MA's card set seems like it would make for an excellent hostess gift. As for poetry, certain lines by W.S. Merwin are indelible (for me anyway) on the subject of fear. Here they are, from two different poems:
I saw the wolf in winter watching on the raw hill
I stood at night on top of the black tower and sang
I saw my mouth in spring float away on the river
I was a child in rooms where the furs were climbing
and each was alone and they had no eyes no faces
nothing inside them any more but the stories
--from "Piere Vidal"
in youth I hid a boat under
the bushes beside the water
knowing I would want it later
and come back and would find it there
someone else took it and left me
instead the sound of the water
with its whisper of vertigo
terror reassurance an old
old sadness it would seem we knew
enough always about parting
but we have to go on learning
as long as there is anything
--from "Waves in August"
Of course these poems will mean something different to every reader. I can't claim any special knowledge. But I love them both.
Such a newsy edition in the best way! MA's card set seems like it would make for an excellent hostess gift. As for poetry, certain lines by W.S. Merwin are indelible (for me anyway) on the subject of fear. Here they are, from two different poems:
I saw the wolf in winter watching on the raw hill
I stood at night on top of the black tower and sang
I saw my mouth in spring float away on the river
I was a child in rooms where the furs were climbing
and each was alone and they had no eyes no faces
nothing inside them any more but the stories
--from "Piere Vidal"
in youth I hid a boat under
the bushes beside the water
knowing I would want it later
and come back and would find it there
someone else took it and left me
instead the sound of the water
with its whisper of vertigo
terror reassurance an old
old sadness it would seem we knew
enough always about parting
but we have to go on learning
as long as there is anything
--from "Waves in August"
Of course these poems will mean something different to every reader. I can't claim any special knowledge. But I love them both.